Select Bibliography for Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
Fall 2004 Symposium

GENDER AND TRANSNATIONAL CARE WORK

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BOOKS

Abel, Emily K., and Margaret K. Nelson. 1990. Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women’s Lives.  New York: State University of New York Press.

Ahooja-Patel, Krishna, S. Uma Devi, G.A. Tadas, eds. 1999. Women and Development. New Dehli: Har-Anand Publications.

Amott, Teresa and Julie Matthaei. 1991. Race Gender and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the United States. Boston: South End Press.

Anderson, Bridget. 2000. Doing the Dirty Work?: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour. New York: Zed Books, distributed by St. Martin's Press.

Bashevkin, Sylvia, ed. 2002. Women's Work is Never Done: Comparative Studies in Caregiving, Employment, and Social Policy Reform. New York: Routledge.

Brannon, Robert. 1994. Intensifying Care: The Hospital Industry, Pofessionalization, and the Reorganization of the Nursing Labor Process. Baywood.

Brody, Elaine. 2004. Women in the Middle: Their Parent Care Years. 2nd Edition. Springer Series on Lifestyles & Issues in Aging.  New York: Springer Press.

Bubeck, Diemut Elisabet. 1995. Care, Gender, and Justice. New York: Oxford University Press.

Cancian, Francesca M. and Stacey J. Oliker. 2000. Caring and Gender. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge.

Cancian, Francesca, Demie Kurz, Andrew London, Rebecca Reviere, and Mary Tuominen. 2002. Child Care and Inequality: Rethinking Carework  for Children and Youth.  New York: Routledge.

Chaney, Elsa M. and Mary Garcia Castro, eds. 1989. Muchachas No More: Household Workers in Latin America and the Caribbean. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Chang, Grace. 2000. Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.

Constable, Nicole.1997. Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Filipina Workers. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Davies, Celia. 1995.  Gender and the Professional Predicament in Nursing. Philadelphia: Open University Press.

Devault, Marjorie L. 1991. Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Ehrenreich, Barbara and Arlie Russell Hochschild, eds. 2002. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. New York: Metropolitan Books.

Folbre, Nancy, ed. 1996. The Economics of the Family. Brookfield: E. Elgar Pub.

Folbre, Nancy and Michael Bittman, eds. 2004. Family Time: The Social Organization of Care. New York: Routledge.

Folbre, Nancy. 2001. The Invisible Heart:  Economics and Family Values. New York: The New Press.

Foner, Nancy. The Caregiving Dilemma: Work in an American Nursing Home.  Berkeley: University of  California Press.

Gamburd, Michele Ruth. 2000. The Kitchen Spoon's Handle: Transnationalism and Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Glazer, Nona.1993. Women’s Paid and Unpaid Labor: The Work Transfer in Health Care and Retailing. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Glenn Evelyn Nakano.1986. Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Glenn, Evelyn Nakano, Grace Chang, and Linda Renney Forcey, eds. 1994. Mothering: Ideology, Experience, Agency. New York: Routledge.

Gordon, Suzanne, Patricia Brenner and Nel Noddings, eds. 1996.  Caregiving: Readings in Knowledge, Practice, Ethics and Politics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Hamington, Maurice. 2004. Embodied Care: Jane Addams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Feminist Ethics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Harrington, Mona. 1999. Care and Equality: Inventing a New Family Politics. New York: Knopf.

Heyzer, Noeleen, Geertje Lycklama à Nijehold and Nedra Weerakoon, eds. 1994. The Trade in Domestic Workers: Causes, Mechanisms, and Consequences of International Migration. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Books.

Hochschild, Arlie Russell. 1989. The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. New York: Viking Press.

Hochschild, Arlie Russell. 1997. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work.  New York: Metropolitan.

Hondangneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2001. Domestica:  Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Kempadoo, Kamala and Jo Doezema, eds. 1998. Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition. New York: Routledge.

Macdonald, Cameron Lynne and Carmen Sirianni, eds. 1996. Working in the Service Society. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Meyer, Madonna Harrington, ed. 2000. Care Work: Gender, Labor and the Welfare State. New York: Routledge.

Momsen, Janet Henshall, ed. 1999. Gender, Migration, and Domestic Service. New York: Routledge.

Parks, Jennifer A. 2003.  No Place Like Home?: Feminist Ethics and Home Health Care. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar.  2001. Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Schiller, Nancy Glick, Linda Basch, and Christina Blanc-Szanton, eds. 1992. Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Reconsidered. New York: New York Academy of Sciences.

Spain, Daphne and Suzanne M. Bianchi. 1996. Balancing Act: Motherhood, Marriage and Employment among American Women. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Thorbek, Susanne and Bandana Pattanaik, eds. 2002. Transnational Prostitution: Changing Patterns in a Global Context. New York: Zed Books.

Tronto, Joan. 1994. Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care. New York: Routledge.

Tuominen, Mary. 2003. We Are Not Babysitters: Family Child Care Providers Redefine Work and Care.  New Brunswick, NJ:  Rutgers University Press.

Utall, Lynet. 2002.  Making Care Work: Employed Mothers in the New Childcare Market.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Ward, Kathryn, ed. 1990. Women Workers and Global Restructuring. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.

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ARTICLES

Isaksen, Lise Widding. 2002. "Masculine Dignity and the Dirty Body." Nora. 10(3): 137-146.

Isaksen, Lise Widding. Oct. 2002. "Toward a Sociology of (Gendered) Disgust: Images of Bodily Decay and the Social Organization of Care Work." Journal of Family Issues. 23(7): 791-811.

Misra, Joya. 2003. “Caring About Care.” Feminist Studies. 29(2): 387-401. (A review article discussing recent essential books in feminist studies and care work.)

Misra, Joya. 2002. "Class, Race, and Gender and Theorizing Welfare States." Research in Political Sociology. 11: 19-52.

Misra, Joya. Aug. 1998. "Mothers or Workers?: The Value of Women's Labor: Women and the Emergence of Family Allowance Policy [in Great Britain and France]." Gender and Society. 12(4): 376-39.

Pyle, Jean L. and Kathryn B. Ward. Sep. 2003. "Recasting our Understanding of Gender and Work During Global Restructuring." International Sociology. 18(3): 461-489.

Pyle, Jean. Fall 2001. "Sex, Maids, and Export Processing: Risks and Reasons for Gendered Global Production Networks." International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society. 15(1): 55-76.

Schneider, Dorothee. Spring 1998. "The Work that Never Ends: New Literature on Paid Domestic Work and Women of Color." Journal of American Ethnic History. 17(2): 61-66. (Reviews four books relating to domestic work and women.)

Uma Devi, S. October 2000."Care and Freedom." Avaiable as PDF file on internet at http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/wfnetwork/berkeley/papers/op1.pdf

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Prepared by,
Tamara L. Smith, State University of New York at Albany

Used with permission and revised by,
Cindy Ingold, Women & Gender Resources Librarian
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
cingold@uiuc.edu
October 2004